WDR engagement report
@WDRaktuell - 472K followers on X
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 49 interactions against 472K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 10K times each, and 0.469% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
WDR's engagement rate beats 34% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 29% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.01%, WDR sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 41% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 97% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 41% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 97% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 227 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Apr 10, 202511x their median
Seit dem 7. April 2025 deaktivieren wir bei jedem unserer Posts die Kommentarfunktion. Warum wir das tun👇 https://t.co/O59zncG2kd
- Aug 20, 20269.2x their median
Wachsende Gewalt und Radikalisierung von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund: Davor warnt Wolfgang Büscher, Sprecher des Hilfswerks "Die Arche", in der WDR-Sendung "Aktuelle Stunde". Das liege vor allem an schlechter Integration. https://t.co/GmXAc0zLFn https://t.co/520QYLtyaw
- Sep 16, 20269.2x their median
Trotz der Sperrung des EU-Luftraums für russische Flugzeuge ist am Morgen offenbar eine Regierungsmaschine aus Moskau auf dem Flughafen Köln/Bonn gelandet. https://t.co/ChP1F4clll https://t.co/bG0RmB2TfJ
- Sep 1, 20268.3x their median
Nach dem Drohnenangriff in Leipzig: Bundesregierung schließt das russische Generalkonsulat in Bonn. https://t.co/NQ1luZo26h https://t.co/ooKXhWz3Rz
- Sep 12, 20268.2x their median
In der Düsseldorfer Innenstadt wird heute unter dem Motto "Gegen die AfD und rechte Hetze" demonstriert. Laut Polizei ziehen mindestens 20.000 Menschen durch die Innenstadt. https://t.co/Xccumnk1lm
- Sep 4, 20267.6x their median
Die Polizei hat an einem weiteren Umspannwerk Abschussvorrichtungen entdeckt - diesmal in Dormagen. Die Polizei geht von einem Sabotageakt aus. Auch hier sollte möglicherweise das Stromnetz angegriffen werden. Ein Bekennerschreiben wird geprüft. https://t.co/2YzvMtdmEe https://t.co/xqND0qqA2N
- Oct 20, 20266.4x their median
Eine Mitarbeiterin des Kölner Ausländeramtes soll Teil einer Schleuserbande gewesen sein. Dabei ging es um die Vermittlung von Scheinehen gegen Geld. Die Mitarbeiterin soll Papiere für Aufenthaltserlaubnisse durchgewunken haben. Sie sitzt in U-Haft. https://t.co/Hvnrzx1Ys0
- Oct 19, 20266.0x their median
Geheime Aufnahmen auf dem Schlachthof Tönnies: Zu sehen sind Vorfälle, bei denen Schweine geschlagen werden oder vor der Tötung ein Fuß abgeschnitten wird. Außerdem dokumentieren sie die umstrittene CO2-Betäubung. https://t.co/Y7bJkvazKS
- Oct 23, 20265.5x their median
Beim AfD-Leak sind auch zwei wichtige Mail-Konten des Landesverbands NRW betroffen: Protokolle, Mails zu Ausschlussverfahren, Mitgliederdaten - alles einsehbar. Abgleiche mit früheren WDR-Recherchen ergeben, dass die Mails vermutlich authentisch sind: https://t.co/5LvbPN0Rk7
- Aug 22, 20265.3x their median
Kanzler Merz besucht heute das Waldbrandgebiet in Hürtgenwald - zwei Tage nach vollständiger Löschung. Die Opposition wirft ihm Untätigkeit vor, weil er den Urlaub nicht unterbrochen hat. Timo Pleuß von der Feuerwehr Hürtgenwald schaut anders aufs Thema. https://t.co/qf7wdx4W1h https://t.co/XHjQWICmls
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 49 interactions against 472K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 10K times each, and 0.469% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is WDR's engagement rate on X?
- WDR (@WDRaktuell) has an engagement rate of 0.01%, based on the median interactions across 58 original posts from the last 30 days against 471,510 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.01%, WDR sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @WDRaktuell have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 34% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @WDRaktuell post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.